Waiting for Godot, Having Religious Element: Waiting for Godot, an absurd drama as it is, has an unmistakably religious element. When Beckett was once asked to comment on the play Waiting for Godot, he quoted from St. Augustine: “Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume: one of the thieves was … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: This fine lyric Musee Des Beaux Arts (The Museum of Fine Arts) was composed by Auden during his stay in Brussels in 1938. It was written during winter and was published in 1939. He visited the museum of fine arts, Brussels and was very much attracted by the paintings of Brueghel, … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ was published in ‘The Tower’ in 1928. This poem belongs to the third period of his poetic life when he was concerned to explore and express the intricacies of a private mythology. In the poem he has used his philosophical symbolism that has made the poem … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: This poem ‘Among School Children’ is the result of W. B. Yeats’ experience as an Irish Senator visiting St. Otteran’s School, a Church school in 1926, where teachers were nuns. The poem was written after his visit to the school. The poem moves from a direct consideration of the children he … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The poem ‘No Second Troy’ is one of the famous lyrics of W. B. Yeats. It is supposed to have been written between 1906 and 1907. But it was published in his poetic volume ‘The Green Hemlet and Other Poems’, in 1910. It is one of the many poems that Yeats … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ was written in 1890 and first published in The National Observer’. Innisfree is an island in Lough Gill, Country Sligo, where W. B. Yeats dreamed of living simple and peaceful life in the lap of Nature. When he was in his teens, he had enjoyed natural … Read more
Introduction: Tiresias has been projected as the protagonist in The Waste Land. Basically, there is only one character in the poem. His presence gives the poem a sense of the oneness of experience and of the unity of all the periods. Tiresias assumes many masks and his voice alternates with the voices of the inmates … Read more
Introduction of Poem: This poem “Enterprise” appeared in Nissim Ezekiel’s fourth volume of poems which was first published in 1960 and, in its second edition, in 1965, under the heading “The Unfinished Man”. Here we have an allegorical poem, that is, a poem which, apart from its surface meaning, has a meaning below the surface. … Read more